this kind of game remember me one called Mech Warrior on the pc, the very first one. You needed a book as big as the bible to get the code to play it. It was like, go to page 567 and line E on the fifth row, and that took like 5 to 10 minutes to find. Damn…

I love all this focus on TMNT. Brings back so many memories. I posted this before, but I would love to see you guys get 4 people and play the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes Arcade game. The NES version was cool, but the arcade version was great. The arcade version is available on “Teenage mutant ninja turtles: Battle Nexus” for the gamecube. It’s kind of a pain in the ass to unlock it, but totally worth it. 4 friends, a few beers, and some TMNT! What could be better!?

Commodore 64 was awesome. I had the one with the cassette tapes, I just had to write load and then press play. Then again I had to rewind, reset the timer to 000 and then fast forward to where the game would “start” (but those were copies)

TomasK is right. Just type “run”
And do yourself a favor and pick up an epyx fast load cart.
Leave the cart plugged in and hit the commodore button and runstop at the same time. Games load much faster.

I didn´t know that that paper was for commodor and I always wondered for what was that paper for when I was a little kid. Btw. I´m born in 1995 so I´m not familiar with commodor or any other things like that.

JAMES! I saw in one earlier video that you own the whole Iron Maiden discography and are a huge fan. It would bee cool if you did a video where you went through the discography and commented on the CD’s!

Nobody buying themselves peripheral for the C64 is ever doing themselves a ‘favor’, guy.
Do yourself a real ‘favor’ and throw that whole POS at somebody while you’re driving down the interstate.
It’s the only way to be sure.

Or that Death Wish III game where you can shoot people into red mush, and there are thugs going around beating grannies into red mush but sometimes the granny would overpower the thug and beat him into mush?

I also remember this game called Nosferatu the Vampyre. I could never get past the first level because the enemies are tiny killer spiders you can hardly make out because they’re the same colour as the background. The cover for it was scary and gave me nightmares.

Nice. The oldest computer I have is a 286 with 1MB of RAM. I do have a CGA card for it (the thing is ~34cm long, made mostly out of discrete logic chips) and a VGA card, so I can even play the old games that need the CGA as well as newer games that need VGA.

Kepa, that paper is for any dot-matrix printer, dasibally it allows you to print on a roll of paper instead of separate sheets, the holes are engaged by gears in the printer to move the paper. It also can be with alternating color lines, so it is easier to read big tables or long lists.

I never knew that the NES TMNT game was ported to another system. I played that game for much as a kid and never made it past the building tops. I can’t imagine trying to play through the whole game on the Commodore 64 lol

TMNT Manhattan Missions is amazing game. I play it very often , it’s easy game but is very entertaining . In my opinion one of the best TMNT PC games. I don’t like these Commodore games , the controls is pure joke.

Hi James, as always, a good and fun video, the only 8 bit piece of shit i first touched in my life was an Amstrad CPC from my cousin, when i was like 4 years old, and i instantly fell in love with those black and red pixels of death and those awesome game covers, it was the shit, and a real piece of shit!

Yeah, Turtles 4 on Super Nintendo is the best Ninja Turtles game…(NEON KNIGHTriderS: Yes we all love Black Sabbath). The Manhattan Project is a close second. The Fall of the Foot Clan on Gameboy was basic, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good.
The only other time I’ve seen a game on a cassette was when The Nerd reviewed Transformers. I don’t understand how you could play a game on tape…probably because it’s one of the worst ideas ever.

While were waiting for the Commodore to work, let’s over analyze old printer paper & DOS…pretty funny.

Did you hit the ‘play’ button on the cassette loader then type in: load?
At least I think that’s how I used to load the games with. I used to have a whole big bag full of Commodore 64 cassette games. They did not have a label written on it so it was like a big surprise which game it turned out to be. Mind you the loading took up to sometimes 2 hours or so.

I remember when there wasn’t much else besides the Commodore, the Atari 2600 and some other computers that just didn’t have as many videogames available for them. There actually were a lot of really good games that not only played well, but actually functioned properly… these ones you’re trying to play are not some of them…

I actually have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles World Tour, but it was for DOS not the Commodore 64 although I’m sure it’s the same thing. I remember seeing this in a store when I was a kid and wanting it because I thought it was a Ninja Turtles game, but it really isn’t. Basically you get a picture of the turtles at Stonehenge or something like that then you can color it in on the computer. Of course this was before color printers so you would just get a colorless image if you tried to print it out. But I do remember you could print out the picture with a calendar of the month if you really wanted to. Oh and I think if you clicked on the name of the location on the pictured you’d get some history of the place too. Damn, educational games.

If anyone wonders, the reason they had games on cassette tapes was that tapes were dirt cheap. Even back then, you could get a brand new game for something like 2 or 3 bucks. It probably sucked but still. Also they were compatible with standard music cassettes, you could even copy a game cassette in a standard stereo deck! And a 90 minute music cassette could hold a shitload of games. You wrote down the position on the tape ticker and fast forwarded to the game you wanted. So yeah, tapes sucked cause of load times and read errors, but they were a dirt cheap way to get games.

i had that TMNT game on a tandy1000. it had more then just 1 button and was actually superior then the NES one. My brother had a copy of it about 20 years ago. We had the same piece of brown paper with the codes on it. But i recall after having the game for about 3 months the manual was lost and we couldn’t play the game anymore. By then my brother had copied out by hand about 25 of the codes prior to loosing the actual manual. so when we wanted to play we hope it would ask for one of the 25 codes we had. lol

1) Make sure that the tape is totally rewound.
2) Place tape in deck.
3) In the console, just type LOAD.
4) The console should then tell you to press play on the tape deck.
5) Tape will be loaded, hit the C (commodore key) to load the program to the screen.

Hey James, nice job doing the Turtles games. I particularly love this episode because the Tutles Ultra game was the first game I ever owned when I was a little kid. I also owned a Ghostbusters 2 game on the computer made by Activision. It was actually really awesome! I always wished that when you reviewed your 3 part Ghostbusters series you talked about it. Here is the link to which game it is in case you ever decide to do another review like this one for Ghostbusters:

The end reminds me of when my friends and I made games for the TI-83 in 8th grade…. we didn’t really pay much attention in algebra. My friend made this one game called “alchemy” where you try and build windmills to make gold… only problem is if you play too long the calculator runs out of memory and then your calculator crashes because it runs out of RAM. son of a beach!

I had the Commodore 64 port of the NES game when I was a kid. There was a certain point in the game where it would just freeze (on one of the overhead map screens) and you couldn’t go any further. Because of this bug I was never able to finish the game.

I don’t remember the thing where having a joystick plugged in disabled some of the keys. I thought that I just left the joystick plugged in all the time. (Although some games used joystick port one while others used port two, so you would sometimes have to switch.)

I usually like your videos, but this is wasting other people’s time! You shold AT LEAST know the right syntax and commands for the C64. You could EASILY look that up on the net. This seemed a little tired. Quality over quantity!

James, about C64… you have to understand that command, you used ‘load “*”,8,1’ because it means that you load all content (that’s the “*”) and “,1” means you want run the first file. If the executable is not the first it won’t work, so I would suggest to you to use only ‘load “*”,8’ and then do ‘list’ after that you find the executable program file in the list of content (something like ’50 “name_of_file” PRG’), you can actually load the file as in ‘load “name_of_file” ,8,1’ . If you know what you do, C64 is very reliable… I got mine when I was 3years old, now, 20years later it still works as a charm and all disc are readable.

It’s hard to imagine that such drastic measures needed to be taken to boot up a game on consoles and computers of years gone by. Today’s kids are spoiled rotten with their near 100% easy-as-pie game loading.

I forgot that the original TMNT game was ported to C64. I think I only saw it played like twice in my whole life. I will tell you that it makes you appreciate the NES version lol especially that crappy C64 music.

The world tour game I have never heard of. I was laughing so hard at the part where you guys were singing. lol

I used to play all kinds of stuff on my dad’s C64. The all time best game I ever played on it was Zorro. Talk about insane puzzle solving. ,8,1 was almost a mantra back then. I definitely need to find one of those t-shirts.

I love the fact that you guys made this video…. in fact I love most of the video’s you post… but I think you could have done 5-15 minutes of research on the internet to figure out why you couldn’t get the games to work.

For example, I was trying to get Burn:Cycle to work on my Windows 7 desktop…. tried Dosbox, but couldn’t do it for the life of me… then I looked online and saw that the only way to get it to work was to run a virtual machine running windows 95 or 98…. for some reason I could not get that to work so I did the next best thing and installed Windows 98 in an old laptop from 2000 I had lying around.

Anyway, the point is I got it to work and it only took me 5 minutes of research , a little less than an hour to get the OS and necessary drivers installed and 10 minutes to search for the disc(It wasn’t in its case… had to search through a few stacks of cd’s).

Once again, I watched almost everything you’ve posted for the last 3 years, I check the site every day for new things and I even watched the OA’s videos(which I think you and Mike are hilarious in, Matt & Lee are ok…. but don’t get me started on “Susie”(whom I’m sure would be much funnier without that horrible, horrible fake accent that makes me want to kill))

So please, do a little research(or read some of the posts that tell you what you did wrong) and maybe next Turtle Tuesday we can see how hilariously awful the other games are and maybe we can see more C6 games in future AVGN’s….anyway, the alcohol is making me ramble…. keep up the good work!!

After you put in the LOAD command, sometimes it will just load the disk to memory. At the next READY prompt, just type RUN and press enter.

I grew up with a Commodore. Check out Project Firestart, that’s a pretty badass game. There’s also Jet Boot Jack, Fearless Fred, Time Tunnel, Grandma’s House, Forbidden Forest, Caverns of Khafka; and Potty Pigeon is a funny concept. So there are some decent C64 games, and also many that would make for good AVGN material.

H.E.R.O.
Bozo’s Night Out (I always thought this was Bozo the Clown trying to get home from work. But it’s really just some bozo guy trying to get home from a bar after drinking more each night)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (it’s worse than NES)
Space Taxi
Jumpman
Double Dragon (Worst one ever)
BlueMax
PitStop

Most others I remember are ports from other systems or arcade (dig dug, donkey kong, jungle hunt….)

I had the World Tour one for DOS when I was a kid. It’s not even a game. You literally just wait for it to load pictures of the turtles in different locations around the world. Then you fill in the colors kind of like Mario Paint. Can’t believe I remember that shit now. Awesome. Thanks James, lol!

Let Me help You James and Mike. Theres a channel called Cubex55 they have the alot, i mean alot of games uploaded you name it they got it. Just search Tmnt and you will see all the Ninja turtles game. Just little info. ^_^

The heck was that for some kind of controller for the C64?
Living in Norway I have NEVER seen that piece of shit 😛
We had a sturdy, hardplastic black/red joystick with 2 buttons that could take a beating like a mofo.

I saw you had the cassette running before executing the proper command so you propably just botched up the loading process.

Rewind the game
Type LOAD and press enter (or was it return in C64)

It will tell you to press Play so do so. After few seconds it will tell you what game it tries to load, and then continues for loooong time. Sometimes the game autostarts after loading, sometimes you have to write RUN to start the game.

You should use this command instead. The commodore will store the last memory location used in memory when you use the command your using. Generally this may cause the subsequent games not to work after you enter the command the first time. Either that or shut it off and turn it back on then try the command again.
LOAD “:*”,8,1

james, james, james,… “*”,8,1 is load first program on disk, but some games the boot program isn’t the first program. I don’t know what the code may be but it would have been something like (LOAD “turtles”,8) as for the tape drive command i’m not sure what it might be. but you could try directoring the tape (LOAD “$”) p.s. directoring a disk is (LOAD “$”,8

Trying to get into C64? Come to SlayRadio.org and we may be able to help.
Maybe you should do more research on the Load commands (c64 wiki) and do a proper Nerd episode, but it can wait until after the movie.

Again, the poor controls is due to that weird controller you had for the C64 and using one for another system later.
Here in Europe we had a great, sturdy controller with 2 buttons that’s probably still today known for almost surviving a nuclear explosion.
You could NOT buy that white piece of shit here.
Then again, in Europe ( more spesific : Norway ), if you tried selling crap like that, you would come nowhere.
We know what we buy and check what we buy.
Get the REAL controller and THEN do a review, ’cause the controls are great with the REAL controller you didn’t get because the US tries to save money all over 😉

he video was great. It was freaking hilarious. Loved the part when Mike was talking about how you should have say this code to play xbox games and stuff. Laughed my ass off! Someone better make this code a t-shirt!!

Fun little trick for the Ultra TMNT game, you can stick to the wall by jumping against a wall and holding down. So many ways to screw with it. Using this trick, you can very easily skip over Bebop and kill Rocksteady first. However, if he’s dead, he doesn’t kidnap April, who remains just standing in front of the door, wounding you if you touch her.

In the dam stage, you can only die by the insta-kill seaweed or the timer. The electric kelp can take you to zero health, but you don’t actually die until the start of the next stage.

Unfortunately, I could never get past the overworld stage after that. There were multiple places you can get inescapably stuck and one point where the game would freeze that I never figured out a way past.

The strange thing is you do get used to playing the game with one button after time. It requires the faintest of taps to attack instead of jump, but we gamers adapt and conquer. This game meant a lot to me as a kid, because while my friends all had Nintendos, I had a C64. It did wonders for my console envy and gave us some common ground to talk about.

Probably a stupid question but, why do you say paraphrases when it looks like you typed a quotation mark?. Don’t wanna be an asshole but I’m just kinda curious. either way i agree there should totally be a t-shirt with that code on it. Also i don’t blame you for not reviewing ET. I’m stupid and actually downloaded an Atari emulator on my computer and got a few of the more famous Atari games for it, in rom form of course. Anyway long story short ET was the only rom that worked properly, and i died a little inside.

I dunno…I like AVGN, but I can’t help that this episode is about poking cheap shots to what was for its time a great (and relatively cheap) computer system and also one of the milestones in gaming history,

No arrow keys? Those were rare on computer systems of the time. Should we mock the NES for not having 10 buttons and analogue controllers? etc

You know whats funny James, When you had to type the code in to start the first game lol i remember the exact words for the code in the Dracula nerd video just goes to show how much i love the vids that i would say the exact digest out

To load a game from tape, all you gotta do is hold SHIFT and press RUN/STOP.
(yeah, rewind it before).

INST/DEL is BACKSPACE on C64.
The C64 is pretty time consuming getting used to (especially the cursor keys) but once you got the hang…bam! This thing kicks fucking ass! Dunno why your keyboard doesn’t work while joystick is attached, doesn’t happen on any of my C64, unless there is a stuck key on joystick.

Try Winter Games on the C64. It has all games, they’re done way better than the NES version and…
…
you can SKIP the intro!
btw Hot Dog is NOT Ski Jump.

@Johnny Lunder: I bet you mean that Competition Pro Joystick. I have three of them. Yeah, they’re built to last, forget everything else.

Hey, you said all the middle buttons don’t work for some reason, maybe those button are for if you don’t have a controller, like they are up, down, left, right and the button. That could also mean if the controller is plugged in, maybe you could type in the missing letters with that controller!

WOW, Just WOW.
I was born in ’72. You come across as the little dumb shit that would hang around at my house and talk about Mario Bros being cool. Then I would Load up Test Drive or Ace of Aces on the C64 and blow your mind.
To quote you yourself (and Mike)
“Game doesn’t work” NO, You don’t seem to know the first thing about a computer.
I should make a video of me Googling Cinemassacre.com and when the site comes up, I’ll just put the arrow over it and hit the space bar and say,
“Stupid site doesn’t work. It’s days are over.”
Yeah that’s you. Unless you’re fucking with us, which is a distinct possibility.
Duhhhhhhhhh, I put the tape in ….Duhhhhhhhhhhhh

Can you please just review or speak about anything having to do with a game for a living. I’ll be yer biggest fan…I swear. I just like hearing you talk about games good and bad. You should become a full time game reviewer. LMAO….of course…that is my destiny for you…I think you;d be perfect..and there is no defacto game reviewer…but i think you look at it intelligently enough..and you could be the first. Retro and new.

A Video Game On A Cassette Tape? HA Imagine like your sister back in the 80’s made a Mix Tape out of it with My Little Pony and Rainbow Bright Music. Back than I’d be pissed lmao! Than again I was born in the 90’s.

Holy crap, I forgot World Tour existed. I had that on Windows 95, and don’t worry you didn’t really miss anything. It really is just a coloring book with predictably lame puns (“Leaning tower of PIZZA, lol). No more, no less. But being only four or five years old at the time, it didn’t really need to be anything else.

You know what’s bullshit? That this vid won’t play on an iphone. Instead I have to buy this fucking app! Ok really tho I know apple can suck a cock for not allowing flash but sites need to get with it and add a lil extra support. I’m sure it’s a good vid

@ Razzy, fuck you! get the fuck out of here troll. if you dont like their videos don’t leave stupid comments. and james did not call the computer a “keyboard”, he was actually referring to the keyboard, moron

I had the Hyperstone Heist instead of the Turtles in Time one. It was shorter & they went cheap with it by making a level where you just fight the first three bosses again (just after you fought the third stage one, who’s an asshole by the way). The music was still great & you get a little extra ending where it shows Shredder fall to his “death” and the Hyperstone break. I’ve been using DOSBOX to play some of my older games & some abandonware, as they call it. I’d like to see James try out some DOS games and more Commodore 64 ones, since I guess it’s kind of unknown territory for him, and for me when it comes to the Commodore 64.

Probably had an issue with the keyboard because of the Genesis controller.
I didn’t have those games, but that ol C64 brings back lots of great memories.
I think you should have brought in a guest that knows the C64 well.
Also the disks being old could have disks that went bad.

I think the games probably worked but you just didn’t know enough about the C64 to get them to work. But hey I’m not complaining about it, who could blame you, it’s hard to remember the commands for a almost 30 year old computer

is it just me when i picture james as dr. frankenstein and mike as fritz? if james said “eating shit is cool”, would mike make a hearty casserole out of it? good video btw; punctuation aside, it brought back many fond memories of commodore 64